Faculty & Staff
Jay Black
Emeritus Professor
BIO
Dr. Black chaired the Program for Ethics in Education and Community and was the first recipient of the Poynter Jamison Chair in Media Ethics and Press Policy, a position he held until 2003. Since 1985 he has been founding co-editor of the Journal of Mass Media Ethics. In 1997, he received the Freedom Forum鈥檚 national journalism professor of the year award. Dr. Black is co-author of Doing Ethics in Journalism and Introduction to Media Communication. He also edited Mixed News: The Public/Civic/Communitarian Journalism Debate. He鈥檚 been a reporter and copy editor for newspapers in Missouri and Ohio. His Ph.D. is from the University of Missouri.